THE 

MISSIONARY 
EDUCATION  MOVEMENT 

of  the 

United  States  and  Canada 
156  Fifth  Avenue 
New  York  City 


THE  REASON 


Ignorance  of  missions  does  not  altogether 
explain  the  lack  of  response  to  the  mission¬ 
ary  appeal,  but  it  is,  however,  the  chief 
cause  of  indifference. 

The  support  of  missions  is  a  duty  and  a 
privilege  inherent  in  the  profession  of  every 
Christian.  Doors  of  opportunity  are  wide 
open  to  Christianity  in  every  land.  Yet 
every  phase  of  Christian  effort  languishes 
because  of  inadequate  gifts. 

If  all  Christians  should  give,  pray,  and 
serve  as  devotedly  as  one  tenth  of  them 
now  do,  every  need  for  money  and  workers 
would  be  supplied.  But  ignorance  and 
indifference  prevent. 

The  Missionary  Education  Movement 
is  engaged  in  a  nation-wide  cooperative 
effort  to  dispel  ignorance  and  defeat  in¬ 
difference,  at  least  in  the  church  of  the 
future,  if  only  partially  among  Christians 
of  the  present.  This  it  is  doing  by  a  normal 
process  of  education,  primarily  among 
children  and  young  people,  through  study, 
prayer,  giving,  and  service. 


THE  REASON  HOLDS 


THE  METHOD 


Sixty-two  home  and  foreign  mission 
boards  unite  in  using  the  Missionary 
Education  Movement  as  a  clearing  house 
to  produce  current  literature  for  use  in 
dispelling  ignorance  in  the  churches. 

Twenty  denominations  are  represented 
in  its  Board  of  Managers.  Mission  study 
is  the  basis  of  the  work.  The  literature  and 
other  helps  are  graded,  as  in  the  field  of 
secular  education.  Leaders  are  trained  in 
summer  conferences,  and  in  countless  con¬ 
ventions  and  institutes. 

Nothing  new  is  organized  in  the  local 
church. 

The  sole  effort  is  to  infuse  the  missionary 
spirit  into  the  membership  of  every  church 
through  the  leaders  and  the  organization 
of  the  existing  agencies  for  religious 
training, — the  pulpit,  Sunday-school,  young 
people’s  society,  men’s  and  women's  so¬ 
cieties,  and  the  home. 


THE  METHOD  WORKS 


THE  COST 


It  costs  money  to  conduct  such  a  nation¬ 
wide  system  of  missionary  education.  One- 
third  of  the  needed  income  is  derived  from 
the  wholesale  distribution  of  literature. 
The  remainder  comes  from  personal  gifts. 

The  help  of  benevolent  friends  is  earn¬ 
estly  sought  in  providing  for  the  budget 
of  1916-17. 

The  funds  are  used  to  maintain  the 
general  officers  and  administrative  staff,  a 
staff  of  editors  and  educational  leaders,  a 
publication  department,  field  workers,  two 
territorial  offices,  several  special  conference 
field  secretaryships,  and  the  magazine 
EVERYLAND  for  boys  and  girls. 

Seven  summer  conferences  are  conducted, 
and  a  bureau  of  correspondence,  consul¬ 
tation  and  travel  is  maintained  to  co¬ 
operate  with  the  leaders  of  denominational 
and  interdenominational  religious  agencies 
throughout  the  country  in  the  promotion 
of  missionary  education. 


RESULT  JUSTIFIES  COST 


THE  RESULT 


The  result  in  the  life  of  the  church  can 
only  be  reckoned  as  are  the  results  of  the 
public  school  system  in  the  life  of  the 
nation.  The  influence  is  pervasive  and 
evolutionary. 

Giving  is  becoming  systematic — almost 
automatic — because  its  practice  has  been 
cultivated  as  a  normal  part  of  the  scheme 
of  Christian  character  building. 

Prayer  for  missions  is  multiplying. 

Spasms  of  emotional  appeal  are  giving 
place  to  all-the-year-round  plans  of  in¬ 
struction  in  missions. 

Young  people  are  learning  of  modern 
as  well  as  ancient  apostles,  journeys,  and 
events,  and  are  getting  their  evidences  of 
Christianity  in  part  through  current  church 
history. 

More  than  100,000  mission  study  classes 
alone  have  been  held.  2,000,000  members 
of  these  classes  are  now  the  leaders  in  the 
churches.  Many  more  millions  of  the 
young  and  the  old  have  been  informed 
through  other  methods.  Hundreds  have 
entered  Christian  forms  of  life-work. 


THE  WORK  IS  ONLY  BEGUN 


OFFICERS 


Samuel  Thobne,  Jh.,  Chairman 
H.  Paul  Douglass,  Ph.D.,  Vice-Chairman 
F.  C.  Stephenson,  M.D.,  Recording  Secretary 
Harry  Wade  Hicks,  General  Secretary 
James  S.  Cushman,  Treasurer 

FINANCE  COMMITTEE 
George  T.  Brokaw 

Gulick  &  Springs,  Counselors  at  Law,  New  York 

William  F.  Cochran 

Capitalist,  Woodbrook,  Maryland 

James  S.  Cushman 

Cushman  &  Denison  Manufacturing  Co.,  New  York 

Frank  A.  Horne 

President,  Merchants'  Refrigerating  Co.,  New  York 

Frederick  R.  Leach 

Treasurer,  E.  R.  Squibb  &  Sons,  Manufacturing  Chemists,  New  York 

C.  C.  Michener 

Director  Field  Work,  League  to  Enforce  Peace,  New  York 

E.  E.  Olcott 

President,  Hudson  River  Day  Line,  New  York 

James  II.  Post 

Director,  National  City  Bank,  New  York 

Walter  S.  Schutz 

Schulz  &  Edwards,  Counselors  at  Law,  Hartford,  Conn. 
Edward  Lincoln  Smith,  D.D. 

American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  New  York 

Landon  K.  Thorne 

William  P.  Bonbright  &  Co.,  Bankers,  New  York 

Samuel  Thorne,  Jr. 

Delaficld,  Howe,  Thorne  &  Rogers,  Attorneys  and  Counselors  at  Law 
New  York 

Edgar  T.  Welch 

Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Welch  Grape  Juice  Co.,  Westfield 
New  York  * 

Charles  L.  White,  D.D. 

American  Baptist  Home  Mission  Society,  New  York 


